Why burn gas and precious time finding a parking spot when you can make your own?

Seriously. There is a parking spot that you can take with you. Just watch this video from Beijing, China, where an industrious commuter simply rolls up a portable parking spot and pulls down her own sign before pulling away.

Now, it's debatable whether this would actually work in a much smaller city such as Portland, where parking enforcement officers pretty much memorize the signs and spaces of the blocks they patrol.

But with the Rose Festival bound to eat up all of the decent parking spots around town this weekend, it seems like as good a time as any to give it a shot.